CHAPTER ONE Governance and the Role of the Board
David Watt, Arturo Langa and Eileen Maclean
Introduction
For any organisation, how it is governed is crucial and the board it appoints and empowers to ensure that the process is well done can be absolutely vital.
Other chapters in this book consider the nature of the individuals on a board and the way to recruit the best people, as well as the context in which they operate. However, there is a need to understand in some depth what a board is, what is does or, indeed, does not do – or more accurately, in many cases, what it should do and what it should not do.
There are legal obligations on the board and the directors who make it up, but there is more to being effective ...
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